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...trash that happened earlier that week. In the waste audit, REPs went through a sample selection of Harvard’s trash, assessing its makeup and recovering recycled materials. The most “surprising” result, said Gogan, was that paper, which generates methane, a greenhouse gas that is 75 percent worse for the environment than C02, dropped to record low levels. Gogan touted Harvard’s adoption of single-stream recycling this year, which enables people to indiscriminately recycle paper, plastic, cardboard, and bottles, as responsible for the increased recovery of paper. In addition, the data...
...less willing to lend to anyone who doesn't have a high FICA, or credit quality, score. The result is a vicious cycle of borrowers being hit with higher interest rates, hair-trigger late fees and curtailed credit lines just when they need funds the most. Higher food and gas prices have contributed to that burden...
Environmentalists have long known that when it comes to climate change, coal will be a dealbreaker. The carbon-intensive fossil fuel provides nearly half of the United States' electricity, and is responsible for some 30% of the country's greenhouse gas emissions. That's just due to the coal plants already operating - as the U.S. looks to expand its energy supply to meet rising demand in the future, over 100 coal plants are in various stages of development around the country. If those plants are built without the means to capture and sequester underground the carbon they emit...
...Francisco was hit again on Oct. 17, 1989, during the third World Series game between the city's two teams: the Oakland Athletics and the San Francisco Giants. Measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale, it severed electrical and gas lines, caused part of the Bay Bridge to fall off and collapsed a 1-mile stretch of an elevated Oakland freeway, trapping cars between layers of asphalt and concrete. Thirty-seven thousand people were injured and 1,000 people were left homeless, but only 63 deaths were directly attributed to the earthquake...
...treat its citizens more humanely. Economic sanctions by the U.S. and the European Union are undercut by the eagerness with which China and other Asian countries do business with Burma's generals. Although one of Asia's poorest nations, Burma holds a wealth of natural resources like timber, natural gas and precious stones...